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Budget and FinanceNumber of resources found: 23
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Alliance for Early Childhood Financing Language: English
Publisher: Alliance for Early Childhood Finance (2011)
Description: Visit the Web site of the Alliance for Early Childhood Financing to learn about the organization's current projects. Topics covered include Early Care & Education Policy, Shared Services, Finance, and Quality Rating and Improvement Systems. You can also review a number of publications, or download their book, "Financing Child Care in the United States."
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Redleaf National Institute: Think Small Language: English
Description: This section of our website contains a variety of resources on issues related to the business of family child care. For over 25 years, Resources for Child Caring has been providing support to the business side of family child care.
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USDA Office of Rural Development Community Facilities Program Language: English
Publisher: United States Department of Agriculture (2011)
Description: The USDA Office of Rural Development's Community Facilities Program offers low interest loans for various community building projects including building or renovating child care facilities.
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Evaluation
Liability Insurance and the Child Care Center
Language: English
Author: Volker, Carol
Publisher: National Network for Child Care (2011)
Description: This article provides information on ways to: (1) evaluate insurance options for your child care center, and (2) evaluate and compare liability insurance policies."
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The Dynamics of Child Care Subsidy Use: A Collaborative Study of Five States Language: English
Author: Meyers, Marcia
Publisher: National Center for Children in Poverty (July 2002)
Description: This report attempts to answer questions about who recieves child care subsidies and how they are used.
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General Information
Aligning Finance with Common Standards Language: English
Author: Stoney, Louise
Publisher: Alliance for Early Childhood Finance (2010)
Description: These graphics, created by Louise Stoney, show how finance can be linked to the quality levels of a QRIS and then layered to fund a single child or classroom of children.
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Can Tax Strategies Help Promote and Finance Quality Early Care and Education Services? (resources) Language: English
Author: Stoney, Louise
Publisher: Smart Start's National Technical Assistance Center and the Linking Child Care and Economic Development Project (2006)
Description: The link provides resources for a conference call relating to tax strategies to finance early care and education.
They provides information on using tax strategies to provide financing to early care and education systems. Websites and other links are included.
The transcript of a conference call can be found at http://www.earlychildhoodfinance.org/conferencecallarchive/TaxStrategiesCall_Notes_2006.doc.
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Can Tax Strategies Help Promote and Finance Quality Early Care and Education Services? (transcript) Language: English
Author: Stoney, Louise
Publisher: Smart Start's National Technical Assistance Center and the Linking Child Care and Economic Development Project (2006)
Description: This transcript of a conference call provides information on using tax strategies to provide financing to early care and education systems. Discussion includes the positives in tax credits, what states are currently doing, how to make it happen, and measuring the benefits of using tax credits.
The resources for this call can be found at http://www.earlychildhoodfinance.org/conferencecallarchive/TaxStrategiesCall_Resources_2006.doc.
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Financing Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs Language: English
Description: Brief guide to relevant Federal funding sources and frameworks of financing strategies and childhood obesity prevention strategies.
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Models for Increasing Child Care Worker Compensation (in PDF) Language: English
Publisher: The Urban Institute (2001)
Description: This article suggest strategies on how to increase compensation for child care workers. Also available in html at http://www.urban.org/publications/310101.html.
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Shared Services: A Powerful Strategy to Support Sustainability of ECE Business Language: English
Author: Stoney, Louise
Publisher: Exchange (2009)
Description: The article discusses a way to approach finance that not only generated additional dollars, but also helps ECE businesses succeed. Some high-quality ECE programs have learned how to reach an economy of scale and still maintain the small, intimate settings that families prefer by using a strategy called shared services.
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Tax Credits for Early Care and Education: Funding Strategy in a New Economy Language: English
Author: Blank, Susan
Publisher: Opportunities Exchange (June 2011)
Description: This issue brief examines one ECE financing strategy that
thus far has not received the attention it deserves—the use of tax credits to raise the quality of services and to make high quality ECE more available to low-income and working-poor families.
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The Iron Triangle: A Simple Formula for Financial Policy in ECE Programs Language: English
Author: Stoney, Louise
Publisher: Alliance for Early Childhood Finance (October 2010)
Description: This news brief discribes a simple formula for financial policy; the iron triangle. It includes 3 factors, rates, enrollment, and fee collection. Paying attention to the 3 sides of the iron triangle is key to sound fiscal management.
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Untapped Potential? How States Contract Directly with Providers to Shore Up Child Care Choices for Low-Income Families Language: English
Author: Schumacher, Rachel
Publisher: Build Initiative (April 2003)
Description: States currently have the flexibility to contract directly with providers to make child care available to low-income families. According to this first national study of state child care contracting policies, states are using contracts to increase the supply of child care in certain high-need areas, to provide child care to special populations, and to improve the quality of child care program standards and services.
A summary brief can be found at http://www.buildinitiative.org/files/untappedbrief.pdf.
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Programming Resource
A Guide to Calculating the Cost of Quality Early Care and Education Language: English
Author: Stebbins, Helene
Publisher: The Finance Project (May 2006)
Description: If you want to change the quality of early care and education, this brief outlines ways to achieve that goal. This brief takes a step-by-step approach to calculating the cost of quality early care and education and provides useful information to put a plan into action.
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Consumer's Guide to Day Care Liability Insurance Language: English
Publisher: Child Care Law Center (December 2008)
Description: This fact sheet provides a question and answer format for common questions about liability insurance for child care home providers; who should have it, where to get it, what does it cover, etc. It provides general answers and gives references for individuals who reside in the state of WI.
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Liability Insurance - Family Child Care Providers Language: English
Publisher: Child Care Law Center (2004)
Description: This fact sheet provides a question and answer format for common questions about liability insurance for child care home providers. It provides general answers and gives references for individuals who reside in the state of CA.
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Liability Insurance and the Child Care Center
Language: English
Author: Volker, Carol
Publisher: National Network for Child Care (2004)
Description: This article provides information on ways to: (1) evaluate insurance options for your child care center, and (2) evaluate and compare liability insurance policies."
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Looking into New Mirrors: Lessons for Early Childhood Finance and System Building Language: English
Author: Stoney, Louise
Publisher: National Child Care Information Center (1998)
Description: This paper reviews public policy in fields other than child care, and explores how the lessons learned in these areas might be useful to child care funding.
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NOT-FOR-PROFIT STATUS FOR SCHOOL-AGE CHILD CARE PROGRAMS
Language: English
Author: Carter, Steven
Publisher: University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension (1993)
Description: A summary of the organizational steps to becoming a federally not-for-profit and/or tax-exempt 501(c)(3) school-age child care program. It is not intended to cover all aspects of not-for-profit organizations.
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RECORDKEEPING FOR SCHOOL-AGE CHILD CARE PROGRAMS
Language: English
Author: Carter, Steven
Description: Establishing good financial records helps school age care programs demonstrate financial success and program performance in terms of income and expenses. Operating decisions can then be based on solid financial facts.
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Sliding Scales in Family Child Care
Language: English
Author: Picklesimer, Phyllis
Publisher: University of Illinois Cooperative Extension - Connections Newsletter (January/February 1996)
Description: This Connections newsletter article discusses the experience of a child care provider who implemented a sliding fee scale in her child care home. It describes practices for implementation and some additional resources.
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Research
Federal Programs for Children and Families: A Tool for Connecting Programs to People Language: English
Publisher: Congressional Research Service (1999)
Description: This report summarizes 140 major federal programs supporting children and families. It is a tool for policy makers, program administrators and advocates to learn about federal programs and how to use public resources wisely.
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Models for Increasing Child Care Worker Compensation (in PDF) Language: English
Publisher: The Urban Institute (2001)
Description: This article suggest strategies on how to increase compensation for child care workers. Also available in html at http://www.urban.org/publications/310101.html.
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The Dynamics of Child Care Subsidy Use: A Collaborative Study of Five States Language: English
Author: Meyers, Marcia
Publisher: National Center for Children in Poverty (July 2002)
Description: This report attempts to answer questions about who recieves child care subsidies and how they are used.
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Washington State Child Care Career and Wage Ladder Pilot Project Language: English
Author: Boyd, Brenda
Publisher: Washington State Department of Early Learning (2004)
Description: The state of Washington Dept of Social and Health Services funded a research project to determine if job titles and related wages based on teacher education and experience would impact teacher retention in child care programs. The pilot duration was 3 years. The results were positive for newly hired staff in those programs.
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